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Katie Daisy has forever been one of my favourite artists. Her work is just stunning. I have been coveting some of her prints for awhile now. So i was really excited when i found out she (along with 7 other artists) now has an iPhone app!
You can find it here. I've already got mine, and i've been having fun sending cute little messages to anyone i can think of!
Love Zina
Planning another table....this one is for a 60th Birthday Party. This is the starting point for our colour inspiration....
and this...
They've chosen the venue, which is none other than the House of Gabriel {only one of our favourite little places to go for lunch}. This won't be the first time we've planned a table there, but that doesn't surprise us as it's such a beautiful place to have a party....so picturesque! We're sure it won't be the last one we do there either :)
These were the invitations that Zina did for the party. Our client wants bright colours like orange and yellow with dashes of pink or red. It's not a colour combination we've worked with before, but we sure are looking forward to the challenge!
We love this stage of planning a dessert table!
Love
Zina & Bec xx
....from Pinterest.
Wow, that's almost a tongue twister! Can you say it 10 times fast? ;)
Maybe it's the because it's getting cooler, maybe it's because Easter is slowly approaching, or maybe my inner girlie girl is just wanting to come out. Whatever the reason, i find myself oddly attracted to pastels lately....
What's inspiring you lately?
I saw this gorgeous butterfly bell jar in Design Sponge at Home. But it's made with real butterflies and they are really expensive, and delicate to boot! But i loved the look of the jar. Not thinking i could ever make one, i forgot it for awhile until i stumbled on some cute little fake butterflies at House and Garden. My sister's birthday was coming up, and i remembered the bell jar i first fell in love with and decided to try and do something similar for my sisters birthday gift! So here's my version of a DIY Butterfly Bell-jar....
Oh....and how could i forget!? You need a bell jar!
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3: Glue fabric to foam, and then hot glue fabric covered base to the bottom of the bell jar.
IMPORTANT: Just make sure the bell jar glass top fits over the foam base once it is covered!
ETA: Glue your covered foam base to the bottom of the bell jar using your hot glue gun.
Step 4: Again with the hot glue gun, start gluing your butterflies to the tops of the wire.
Step 5: Decide where you want your butterflies to sit and using a wire cutter, trim your wire accordingly. Place your wire in the foam base and then add more glue to the base to secure it in place.
Step 6: Add your message. I hand drew mine onto kraft paper and coloured it in using a white gel pen. I then cut it out and hot glued the bottom of the paper to the base.
Put the top of your bell jar back on and ta-da! You now have a gorgeous statement piece for your table. Or you can give it away as a gift....mine went to my sister for her birthday. Although, once it was complete, i fell in love with it and it was really hard to give away! Shhhh....don't tell!
Love Zina xoxo
We had a quick chance to sneak away and meet some of the other vendors at the Wedding Expo. There were some really great stalls!
Bree from The Cake That Ate Paris ( Facebook). Her cakes were quite simply....amazing! Wow, the work that must go into each cake, we could only imagine! Actually, we can't even imagine...
This is one of our favourite stationery stores on the coast. Sarbe (facebook) is always filled with gorgeous papers and invites and cute party/wedding supplies. We got to meet the girls again on Sunday, and can we just say that they are gorgeous too!
This was their cute little stall...
We also loved this stall called Friendly Fire Photography (facebook) . Their website super cool and we fell in love with their pin-up shoots! So much fun!
And last but not least were the crazy fun girls in the stall just beside us from Epic Exposure (facebook) ! They had a photo booth, which seemed to be a hit on Sunday because they were constantly busy :) We were supposed to jump in for a photo ourselves, but never got the chance. Oh well...maybe next time. Anyway, it was so much fun to have them hanging out beside us all day.
So be sure to check them out, especially if your planning a wedding sometime soon. Oh, if only we'd known what we know now when planning our weddings.....{sigh}.
Have a fabulous day!
Bec & Zina xoxo
Phew! What a week it's been! We've been baking up a storm getting ready for the Wedding Expo that was on this Sunday past. Baking and rolling and dipping and sprinkling....
We had wanted to do 1000 cake pops for the Expo (to hand out to the brides), but only made it to just over 600. Still we were happy with that. We didn't really get a chance to take any good photos, so here's some pics from our iPhones using instagram...
We got to meet some of our facebook followers in person, which was pretty awesome :) All 600 cake pops were gone by the end of the day...and i one point someone even offered to buy the ones off our display table! Ha!
We also met some other cool wedding specialists, and in fact plan on doing a little shout out post on some of our faves from the day (sometime this week) so make sure to pop back and check them out, especially if you plan on getting married on the GC anytime soon ;)
Hope you all had a lovely weekend!
Love
Bec & Zina xoxox
